Lost

Lost was the second deleted scene from Cars.

Plot

Lightning catches up with Mack, but finds out it wasn't Mack. The truck drives away, leaving Lightning at the crossing. Lightning doesn't know what to do. Then, on his left, he sees the Interstate with a bunch of moving cars, and rushes towards it. Next, it becomes dark, and then a thud happens. Lightning finds himself going off the road. Then he falls down a hill, and crashes into a bunch of branches. He bumps into a car behind him. He looks at it, and the car was a dead car, freaking Lightning out. He looks around, and more dead cars were everywhere. One was even hanging on a tree. Several of them have branches growing through them. Lightning then imagines that some of those dead cars are about to grab him with tree branches. He runs into a fence. The fence gets tangled on him. On the other side of the fence was the engine of another dead car. Lightning gets back on the road, and tries to run away from the dead car's engine. Lightning eventually gets untangled and run away. The dead car's engine seems to have exploded.

Trivia

• It's unknown why the scene was cut, but the possible reason why this scene was removed was the amount of subliminal messages seen in this scene. For example, the dead cars.
• According to the title card, this scene was made in June 2002.
• This scene was parodized and reused with some modifications in the The Radiator Springs 500½.
• When Lightning McQueen watches the truck drives away, a shot that looked like the final film appeared.
• Jerry's Junk instead of Jerry Recycled Batteries is written.
• The early design of Jerry Recycled Batteries resembles a 1950s theme pickup truck.
• The same line by Jerry Recycled Batteries "Turn on your lights, you moron!" was reused in the final film.